Awards & Recognition:

• The 1st reward of the 33rd Syrian Scientific Week Oct, 1994.
• The 1st reward of Basel Al-Asad medical research sponsored by the Syrian ministry of health 1995.
• The 2nd reward in the 5th Meeting of the Mediterranean and African Society of Ultrasound in Tunisia April 27-30, 1996.
• The 1st reward of the best talk of the third day of the 3rd Annual Congress of Gastrointestinal Surgery & Hepatology & the 1st Congress of Hepato Pancreato Biliary Club in Luxor, Egypt March 16-19, 1999.
• Best Abstract Award in UEGW in Geneva 2002.
• Main Director of the ESGE Workshop on Advanced Endoscopy in Syria (Syrendo 2011).
• Director of Evolution of Karbala & Najaf endoscopy Centers Program in Iraq in association with IMI in USA. A program of three stages that had been started 2010 and finished April 2011. Still needs maintenance mechanism.

Experience:

• 1987 till now: Diagnostic Therapeutic Gastrointestinal Center, Private . Damascus, Syria.
• Al-Kafeel Specialty hospital in Karbala , Iraq
• Chairman Young Clinician Program in Africo Middle East Association of gastrointestinal Endoscopy “YCP in AMAGE”. 1979-1986
• Specialty in Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Hospital (KFSH&RC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• 1987-1997: Invasive endoscopist in Al-Mouassat Damasucs University Hospital & Al-Assad University Hospital in Damascus, Syria

Memberships and Professional Affiliations:

• General Secretary of the Syrian Society of Gastroenterology SSGE 1995-1997
• Vice president of the Endoscopy Branch of SSGE 1996-1998 
• President of the Endoscopy Branch of SSGE 1998-2000  
• Second Secretary of the Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology PAAG 1997-1999
• General Secretary PAAG 1999-2001 
• Chairman Endoscopy Branch PAAG 2001-2003
• President of the Endoscopy Branch of SSGE 2002 – 2004 
• Active member of the Syrian Society of Gastroenterology SSGE. 
• Active member of the Pan Arab Association of Gastroenterology PAAG. 
• Corresponding member of American Society of  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ASGE. 
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology. 
• Member in the international board of the Journal Endoscopy.
• Fellow Royal College of Physician FRCP.

Publications

• Dietrich CF, Sharma M, Chaubal N, Dong Y, Cui XW, Schindler-Piontek M, Richter J, Radzina M, Sandouk F, Kucharzik T, Schreiber-Dietrich D. Ascariasis imaging: pictorial essay. Z Gastroenterol. 2017 May;55(5):479-489.
• WEO Newsletter. EFADT TO, P LI - Digestive Endoscopy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
• Sandouk F, Al Jerf F, Al-Halabi MH. Precancerous lesions in colorectal cancer. Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2013;2013:457901.
• Sandouk F, Haffar S, Zada MM, Graham DY, Anand BS. Pancreatic-biliary ascariasis: experience of 300 cases. Am J Gastroenterol. 1997 Dec;92(12):2264-7.
• Sandouk F, Anand BS, Graham DY. The whirlpool jet technique for removal of pancreatic duct ascaris.Gastrointest Endosc. 1997 Aug;46(2):180-2.
• Sandouk F,. Whirlpool jet technique. A new endoscopic method for removing ascaris worms from the pancreatic duct. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 43(4):412-412 · April 1996
• Sandouk F, Haffar S, Zada M. Experience with 300 cases of pancreato-biliary ascariasis. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 43(4):394-394 · April 1996